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Italian Air Force F-35s Carry Out SEAD and DEAD Training During Exercise Lightning 2020

November 3, 2020 David Cenciotti

During the Exercise, four Italian F-35 Lightning II have carried out missions in the Polygone range and trained with the Italian SIRIUS Surface Based Air Defence (SBAD). From Oct. 19, four F-35A aircraft, belonging to […]

Let’s Talk About The Digital Evolution Of Electronic Warfare

October 26, 2020 Stefano D'Urso

How the rapid increase in computing power and affordability of advanced technologies are driving the move from legacy analog EW systems to new digital ones. A recent feature by Northrop Grumman provided some interesting insights […]

First In, Last Out: the story of the SEAD missions flown by the F-105 in Vietnam

November 30, 2015 Dario Leone

Here’s why Wild Weasel missions were among the most dangerous sorties flown in Southeast Asia. During the Vietnam War the main threat to the strike packages was the V-750 (S-75) Dvina, the first effective Soviet surface-to-air missile […]

Operation Unified Protector (was Odyssey Dawn) explained (Day 81 – 104)

July 1, 2011 David Cenciotti

Previous debriefings: Archive With the air campaign in Libya in progress for more than 100 days, I think it’s better to give the blog’s reader an extremely quick recap of the main political and military […]

Operation Unified Protector (was Odyssey Dawn) explained (Day 68 – 80)

June 7, 2011 David Cenciotti

Previous debriefings: Archive As reported in the previous Debriefs, although not being as intense as one might expect, NATO air campaign may be slowly paying off. Thanks also to the coalition’s air strikes (and to […]